Records of the Washington State Liquor Control Board, 1934-1993.

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Records of the Washington State Liquor Control Board, 1934-1993.

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The records of the Liquor Control Board document its stewardship of liquor sales and consumption in Washington State from the 1930s to the 1990s. The records include minutes of the proceedings of the Board, accompanied by documentation pertaining to administrative operations, the enforcement of liquor laws, applications, and agency and store closures. Correspondence of the chairman and other officials of the Board with agencies and stores concerns advertising, legal matters, liberalization of liquor laws (1962), Sunday liquor sales, hearings, finance, enforcement, meetings, policy, and correspondence with Governor Rosellini. Annual reports of the Board summarize programs and important activities.

202 cubic ft.

Washington State Archives, Southwest Regional Branch

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SNAC Resource ID: 6813024

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Rosellini, Albert D. (Albert Dean), 1910-2011

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Washington State Liquor Control Board

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When Prohibition was repealed in 1933, Washington State citizens wanted to make sure that newly-legal alcohol would not create an undesirable atmosphere in their state. Governor Martin appointed a commission to study the problem; it concluded that since prohibition had been a failure, the best plan was to allow widespread, licensed distribution of beer and wine, but to control strictly the sale of hard liquor by allowing to be sold only in government dispensaries. Washington passed a Liquor Cont...